Example sentences of "and [pron] see [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 Scobie — he 's the Lab attendant — and I sees to the working labs but all the heavy cleaning is supposed to be done by the contractors .
2 As Keeton acknowledges , Dicey ‘ inherited an outlook upon the constitution which owed something to Burke , Blackstone and Bagehot , and which saw in the English system the climax of political achievement ’ .
3 The transportation of useful plants from one part of the world to another had begun in the eighteenth century , and we saw in the previous chapter how Kew Gardens became the hub of the British empire 's efforts to replace indigenous species with imported ones of greater commercial value .
4 However , during the fifteenth century changes were introduced and we see for the first time representations of corpses , cadavers and skeletons , and it is from these — usually to be found on memorial brasses , and particularly on those in East Anglia — that we acquire our first glimpse of the English shroud .
5 She ripped away her scarf and he saw in the uncertain light the marks about her throat .
  Next page